Author Archives: steve

Matauwhi Bay

Posted on December 5, 2010 by steve

As Ben still had some more work to do on his website and we’d heard the open internet connection was better around the corner we motored around the corner to get the better reception. We first anchored close in the … Continue reading →

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Russell

Posted on December 4, 2010 by steve

We’ve escaped Opua. It’s a hard place to leave as there’s always a reason to stay an extra day. But that thinking gets you stuck and sooner or later you have move on or miss out. Before leaving we did … Continue reading →

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A little scarey?

Posted on December 3, 2010 by steve

We left early this morning so I skipped my almost normal time to blog. So here’s the last two days activities. Not a great deal happened in the morning. I managed to make my final call to the Lagoon tech … Continue reading →

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All charged up

Posted on December 1, 2010 by steve

Yesterday went well. I was able to contact the tech as planned. We reviewed the preparatory work I had done and what I needed to pay attention to when exchanging the units. The switch over went reasonably well with the … Continue reading →

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Back to Projects

Posted on November 30, 2010 by steve

Around 8am I took the dinghy ashore to visit Catermarine to pick up our long awaited for charger. I learned that a second package had also arrived which turned out to be two replacement rudder pins provided free of charge … Continue reading →

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